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Subway Sketch Group - (04.02.05)

well, probably becasue of Daylight Savings Time and lack of promotion by us (and lazziness) no one showed up this weekend. I was sitting around in Subway waiting until 3:00pm waiting for anyone who wasnt informed of Daylight Savings.

Instead of looking at is as i was waiting for people (which i absolutely despise) i looked at this as a forced detachment from the comPOOter. I was able to get a bunch of concept work done for a side project I'm working on.

I did, however, sketched a few people at starbucks. here is the end result:

Today (04.06) was such a beutiful day so i decided to spend some time in the park and once again away from the ComPOOter. Once again I worked on the concepts for my personal project. trying to visualize thescript and begin to layout shots for the storyboards for it. But much like in the Sunday fashion i ended the session with some observational drawings. These were done with a Sumi brush and Walnut ink:

for 04.10.05 I've already gotten an RSVP and Golden promissed to show up this time as well. So everyone else come out too. Location is still the same, Starbucks on 34thSt. at 1 Penn Plaza.

dadamafia - ya dude that monorail does seem kinda useless since everyone and their grandma owns a car. Sorry to dis your town but i never liked Miami. I used to go down evey now and then whe i lived in Boca and i always managed to get lost there.

King Odessa - I use a Kaimei brush pen i got at the Pearl in NYC. It's a little pricy ($50) and the rifil cartiges are $1 each. I go through a cartrige a week when i'm all out drawing, otherwise it lasts. I like it casue its small, light, and very portable.

Before I found this pen I used a black refilable one ($15) whose name i can't read becasue its in japaneese. (Got it in LA at a Japanese book store - i saw David Mack using one at ComicCon 2004 and i had to have one too) Winjer uses the same one so he may be able to tell you the brand. Otherwise you have to wait til i get my ass in gear and photograph the pens i use.

I also have a "Nori" brush from Cheap Joe's (online art store). That was my first one. It's cheep ($7-8 ), bulky, and gets kind of messy when refilling the ink. It takes regular inks that you can buy at any store.

about speed, I never really like spending a lot of time on things. if I spend a long time on something it looses its energy and i end up messing it up in some way. Speed is also good to have in the professional world. (funny side note: I went to the Society of Illustrators Jazz Life Drawing session this past tuesday - which was totally awesome and everyone in NYC should go - and i ended up sucking trying to draw the models for majority of the session. But in-between poses I made a few quickies of other atendies and those turned out great and in less time.)

By the way, I posted up on just about any art forum you can think of about the next rest of the dates in April for the sketchbook group. Hopefully we'll get more attendees as time progresses and more folks slowly, but surely(?) show up.

Subway Sketch Group - (04.10.05)

Golden - the posts are helping, now all you gotta do is show up, hehe.

Digi - come back and check in on your bastard children.

Here's a new batch.

Winjer showed up, and a newcomer, Jin. We took the E downtown, but there was no one on the train. so we ended up going to the park. Initialy tried to go to the Zoo but seing as how we're all broke we went to a grassy area and sketched until 6:30. I sucked most of the day. Didnt start getting good until the very end.

Golden - I showed up and waited for you until 2. Jin, from last week, showed up and we ended up going to the park again. Once again I sucked, and we did end up staying til 6:30 like last time. I wasn't gonna show cause i was sick all week and on a stupid sleep schedule, but i forced myself, and other than a severe lack of sleep and a stuffed nose, i had a good time.

Waited for you too, Winjer.

Next week i'll be showing up too, but i'll only be able to stick around for 2 or 3 hours. Rocking my Jewishocity and throwing a Passover Dinner for my family and Jewish friends.

Hito - the last few weeks were great because we were able to chill in the park until dusk. Its best for you to come out on one of the nice days so we can justify your trip up from Philly and stick around for a while. So next weekend may not be the best to come up but the ones afterwards should be.

Nope, its a brush pen. I'll post a picture of it with an update from the last two sessions tomorrow. Been slacking on scanning them in.

Originally Posted by nevets

I could never do that. i'd ebd up with nothing but chicken scratchs

That's how we all start out. My most recent batch is a lot of chicken stcatches. I had this one class with George Pratt where he made us do 2 hours of 5 second poses from a model. 5 seconds!!! There's no time to get anything done. but by the end of the 2 hours my chicken scratches started to look like something. I filled up the whole pad of 18x24" newsprint and this is the best sketch i got out of the whole batch:

This was in 2001. You do enough of these and you'll start seing results.

Subway Sketch Group - (04.17.05)

Arctis - I don't use a thin pencil, its either a Staedtler MARS780 (you know the clicky type with the thick led) or a graphite stick. The only time i use thin Clicky pencils is when i'm sketching thumbnails.

Here are the sketches from 2 sundays ago. I'll scan last Sunday's later tonight or tomorrow.